 Nastasya Filippovna

Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova (pre-reform and post-reform ) is the principal heroine of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel "The Idiot".Though of aristocratic origin, beautiful and intelligent, Nastasya Filippovna is regarded by society as a 'fallen' woman, owing to her having spent four years as the concubine of the aristocrat Totsky, a position into which she was forced at the age of sixteen.